
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 13, 1993                   TAG: 9310130020
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PEOPLE

Rattled by soaring crime rates and rampant random violence? So are celebrities, according to a TV Guide special report, "Hollywood Under Siege." Among those armed and ready to become shooting stars, if need be: Clint Eastwood, Cybill Shepherd ("I have always carried a gun . . . I am trained in the art of self-defense, too."), Diane Ladd, Edward James Olmos and Joanna Kerns. "Empty Nest" actress Park Overall says: "I date a Hell's Angel, so I don't have much problem with crime. But it's getting worse. I have a gun. I'm very proud of that fact. I keep it right by the bed." But Patrick Stewart says a gun isn't the solution: "That would be, for me, a tacit involvement with violence itself."

Some of the first shots fired during the making of "Gettysburg" were between director Ron Maxwell and actor Jeff Daniels.

Daniels, who had roles in "Terms of Endearment" and "Arachnophobia," said he thought Maxwell was insulting when the director visited him at home to ask him to play Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

"I asked him if he was going to do this thing right or just do another bad version of `North and South.' I told him if that was the case, I wasn't interested in his project," Daniels said. "He asked me if I had what it took to play Chamberlain, which really made me bristle."

But Maxwell said he needed Daniels for the $30 million movie, which opened over the weekend, because the actor bears a striking resemblance to Chamberlain.

"Suddenly, I was back in school reading books on Chamberlain, books on Gettysburg and books on the Civil War," Daniels said.

Bluesman Buddy Guy won top honors at the 14th annual Handy awards in Memphis, Tenn., receiving trophies for entertainer and blues guitarist of the year for the fourth straight time.

Guy also won the best contemporary blues award Sunday for his album "Feels Like Rain."

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers were named blues band of the year, while Lowell Fulson won Handys for his single "Working Man" and his album "Hold On."

Etta James was named female vocalist of the year and won a Handy for her album "The Right Time."

by CNB